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I think your definition of NIH differs from mine, on all of those projects. Let's start with Upstart, how was that NIH?

• talkin 4y ago
  NIH is a cynical name, it means you prefer IH. All this stuff is related to Canonical reinventing stuff, without most other distros adopting it.
  • Daviey 4y ago
    Are you suggesting Canonical should have stuck with SysVinit and shouldn't have tried to make systems better?
    • gatlin 4y ago
      No they are suggesting the possibility you intentionally excluded, which is to make systems better but by other means.
      • Daviey 4y ago
        When Upstart was conceived and first shipped, what other option was there?
  • chungy 4y ago
    Upstart got some decent adoption, with both Debian, Fedora, and RHEL switching to it by default for a short time. Its downfall was that it didn't offer a great deal of benefits and kept all the downsides of sysvinit. systemd was superior in every way.